I’ve always prided myself on my ability to react quickly to communications: If you send me an email, I’ve been known to respond within the hour. If you shoot me a Slack, I’ll often chat back within minutes. I’m always on top of texts, and extremely quick with a Twitter reply. As it turns out, this penchant for quick-draw responses is also my downfall when it comes to productivity. I work at Crazy Egg — an all-remote company where digital communications come in many forms: Slack channels, emails, Zoom calls, JIRA tickets, Confluence pages, and comments in Google docs. I’m…

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